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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : gdk-pixbuf (SUSE-SU-2022:2996-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 164667

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:2996-1 advisory.

 - GNOME GdkPixbuf (aka GDK-PixBuf) before 2.42.8 allows a heap-based buffer overflow when compositing or clearing frames in GIF files, as demonstrated by io-gif-animation.c composite_frame. This overflow is controllable and could be abused for code execution, especially on 32-bit systems. (CVE-2021-46829)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1201826

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-46829

http://www.nessus.org/u?fe4a79cf

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 164667

File Name: suse_SU-2022-2996-1.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/3/2022

Updated: 7/14/2023

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-46829

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgdk_pixbuf-2_0-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-gdkpixbuf-2_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gdk-pixbuf-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-gdkpixdata-2_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gdk-pixbuf-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgdk_pixbuf-2_0-0-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gdk-pixbuf-thumbnailer, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/2/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/24/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-46829

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:2996-1